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The specific order reads: “The Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries hereby orders [Aaron and Melissa Klein] to cease and desist from publishing, circulating, issuing or displaying, or causing to be published … any communication to the effect that any of the accommodations … will be refused, withheld from or denied to, or that any discrimination be made against, any person on account of their sexual orientation.”
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It always raises my eyebrows when I look up a story, like what was quoted here that was "the gag order" - and can only find it on circle-jerking right wing sites passing it around like gumballs.
I see much of it traces back the RWNJ's @ the Daily Signal.
Well, I went to find a legit source - a only then could I read the actual Final Order, which is here:
http://www.oregon.gov/boli/SiteAssets/pages/press/Sweet Cakes FO.pdf
It's 122 pages long. Yow.
Soes... I'm looking for this "gag order" -- and I come across page 30, which brings up
this Oregon LAW:
"...
it is an unlawful practice for any person acting on behalf of any place of public accommodation as defined in ORS 659A.400 (Place of public accommodation defined) to publish, circulate, issue or display, or cause to be published, circulated, issued or displayed, any communication, notice, advertisement or sign of any kind to the effect that any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, services or privileges of the place of public accommodation will be refused, withheld from or denied to, or that any discrimination will be made against, any person on account of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status or age if the individual is 18 years of age or older. [Formerly
659.037; 2003 c.521 §3; 2005 c.131 §2; 2007 c.100 §7]
ORS 659A.409 - Notice that discrimination will be made in place of public accommodation prohibited - 2013 Oregon Revised Statutes
It notes in the Final Order the Kleins are free to speak their minds and express their opinion all they want -- and even place the emphasis by underlining "on behalf" (of the business.).
From the Order:
"it does not cover expressions of personal opinion, political commentary, or other privileged communications
unrelated to...the public accommodation."
So, what CONNIE dishrags are calling a GAG ORDER -- is actually Oregon Law that applies to all people who own public accommodations - and it dates back to a case 30 years ago where someone put up a sign saying "NO SHIRTS, SHOES, SERVICE, *******." (n-word)
The open to the public businesses in OR can't put up a sign or advertise : "we discriminate" basically - Just as the law is titled:
Notice that discrimination will be made in place of public accommodation prohibited - 2013 Oregon Revised Statutes
But that's really not a problem for the Klein's now, is it? They don't have a place of public accommodation anymore do they?
Don't like it? Change the law.
So, again, RWNJ's are playing the poor poor pityme dance, once again.
Boo Hoo.
